Toy.



No. 836,257. PATENTBD NOV. 20, 1906.

E. H. HOLDEN.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR.29,1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed March 29,1906. Serial No. scans.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE H. HOLDEN, a resident of Keene, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to toys, and has for its object to provide simple means for simulating the run of a base-ball player and requiring peculiar skill for its manipulation.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention and form a part of the specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of \he device. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3.

Numeral 1 denotes a box or frame which may, if desired, be closed on its upper side by a glass 2.

The frame, as indicated in the drawings, is made of wood covered by tin, but may be made wholly of either or of any suitable material.

1 denotes the bottom or floor of the frame. Upon this are fixed posts 4 to support runways or runway-sections 5, 6, 7, and 8. These, which may be stamped out of a single piece of metal, are by preference arranged in imitation of a ball ground diamond or square.

Three bases (denoted by 9) are interposed between runway-sections in manner as represented. These bases are approximately horizontal and preferably without encircling flanges of any kind and may be slightly inclined with reference to the plane of the box- I bottom and also be made slightly convex on the upper side. The first three sections 5, 6, and 7 are connected by the bases, as indicated, and the outer and inner edges of the latter are free from ball guides or obstructions.

The particular form of bases and runways shown is not essential and may be varied to render the game to be described more or less difficult, and the size of the parts may be varied for the same or other reasons.

A pocket or home-base is denoted by 10. This communicates with runway-section 8. Contiguous this pocket runway-sections 5 and 8 are separated by a wall, as shown. Near their junction the former has a passageway communicating with an inclined runway 11, extending down and flared outwardly toward its foot on the floor. This foot or lower flared end of runway 1 1 is opposite an open space between two posts an under a base 9.

The game is played with a ball (one or more) and consists in so manipulating the box as to cause the ball previously placed on the box-floor to enter the runway 11 and then run around the elevated ways to the home-base.

Obviously the bases may be varied in s1ze and form, so that the operation described may be made quite easy or very diflicult, a quick eye and hand in the latter case being essential to success. This toy or puzzle I prefer to call the baseball puzzle.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is N 1. The combination of an inclosing frame or box having an open floor, with runways elevated above said floor, an inclined runway leading from the floor up to one of the elevated runways, and bases each open to two elevated runways.

2. The combination of an inclosing frame or box having an open floor, with ball-run.- ways elevated above said floor, an inclined runway leading from the floor up to one of the elevated runways, and bases each open to two elevated runways and also open on two sides to the space between the floor and the level of the elevated runways.

3. The combination of an inclosing frame or box having a floor, with ball-runways ele vated above the floor. said runways being separated by bases connecting the bottoms of the runways and open on opposite sides thereof and arranged to inclose a square, the I inclined runway extending from the junction last runway terminating near the entrance to the first.

4. The combination of an inclosing frame or box having a floor, with ball-runways, said runways being separated by bases connecting their bottoms'and arranged to inclose a square, the last runway terminating near the entrance to the first, posts to sup- 10 port the said runways from the floor, and an of said two runways to the floor and communicating with one of them only.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' EUGENE H. HOLDEN. Witnesses:

HIRAM BLAKE, LEON A. HARRIS. 

